Industry Insights
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Paduda: 2023 Predictions for Workers' Comp, Part 1 | 07/24/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Time to check in and see how well/poorly my predictions for 2023 are panning out. ...Read More | |||
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Geaney: Should Employers Pay for Both Lawyers in Workers' Comp Cases? | 07/21/2023 | |
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| By: John H. Geaney | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | |||
| When a workers’ compensation case settles in the New Jersey Division of Workers’ Compensation for a percentage of disability, the employer pays for its own lawyer and most of the fee of the injured worker’s lawyer. ...Read More | |||
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Moore: NCCI Video Answers Key Question | 07/20/2023 | |
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| By: James Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| I have been very hesitant over the years to include videos in these articles. Quite a few articles in this blog have covered the vast improvements in the NCCI combined ratio figures. Being text-based and easy to read has been my goal since the first article was published in 2007. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: The Cost of Heat | 07/19/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| While ignoramuses continue to deny we humans are changing the planet’s climate, folks with profit and loss responsibilities are calculating the cost of heat and heat-related injuries. ...Read More | |||
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Duff: Earnings Disparities, Comp Issues Connected to Race and Ethnicity | 07/18/2023 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Many employee benefits systems, including workers’ compensation, are pegged in a purportedly neutral fashion to earnings. Thus, in workers’ compensation, we might say that a benefit is based on 66 2/3% of the preinjury average weekly wage, capped at the state average weekly wage for a...Read More | |||
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Paduda: Work Comp and Mass Shootings | 07/17/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Kudos to Texas’ Department of Workers’ Compensation for highlighting workplace mass shootings in a just-concluded annual conference. The presentation is here. ...Read More | |||
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Grinberg: Employers Have No Duty to Employees' Household Member on COVID-19 | 07/14/2023 | |
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| By: Gregory Grinberg | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| The California Supreme Court issued its opinion in Kuciemba v. Victory Woodworks, essentially ruling that no duty of care exists on the part of employers to household members of employees when it comes to COVID-19. ...Read More | |||
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Paduda: AI, Automation, Junk Health Plans and Other Misadventures | 07/13/2023 | |
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| By: Joe Paduda | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| MyMatrixx’ Chief Innovation Officer Cliff Belliveau, one of the smartest and most articulate tech people I have ever met, penned an excellent summa...Read More | |||
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Snyder: Steel Man vs. Straw Man | 07/12/2023 | |
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| By: Teddy Snyder | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Most of us have heard of the concept of a straw man argument. Those are the fallacious arguments you can knock over because they distort the premise to make the proponent’s point. ...Read More | |||
| Young: State's Top Workers' Comp Developments — First Half of 2023 | 07/11/2023 | ||
| By: Julius Young | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| At mid-2023, it’s time to examine the most important developments in California workers’ compensation so far this year. ...Read More | |||
